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Message-ID: <48DF6FE6.4050705@petschge.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:52:06 +0200
From: Patrick Kilian <osm@petschge.de>
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Subject: Licencing of new USGS Landsat data
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To whom it may concern:
I write to you as an contributor to the OpenStreetMap project.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable
map of the world. The maps are created using data from portable GPS
devices, aerial photography and other free sources. Both rendered images
and the vector dataset are available for download under a Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.
According to an announcement on April 21st of this year
(http://landsat.usgs.gov/products_data_at_no_charge.php) the USGS is to
provide data from the landsat mission free of charge. Can those data be
considered to be in the public domain, and thereby able to be used by
the OpenStreetMap project?
We envisage using the USGS data to improve OpenStreetMap's data on
features including (but not limited to) coastlines, lakes, and forests.
If you have any questions about OpenStreetMap or Creative Commons
Attribution licencing, please do not hesitate to ask, particularly if it
will help to resolve the question of whether the USGS license terms can
permit use by OSM.
Sincerely yours,
Patrick Kilian